What We Know For Sure

—40 made an appearance on The Smokebox, a chat show hosted by Cypress Hill's B-Real, and said that Views From The 6 was recorded between Toronto and L.A., and that it's a “project based around our city.”

—In an interview with The New York Times, 40 said Views From The 6 will see: “A lot of introspection, very vivid. He’s discovering new flows, new cadences, new patterns.” In his music, he is “...trying to find ways to pull more untraditional sounds in, to push the boundaries a little further.”

1) Drake promised a “sunnier” direction and experiments with dancehall. “'I love dancehall flows, especially as of late,' he says. 'I pretty much won’t even rap on a beat unless it’s got some magic element of new tempo or new pocket, where I hear myself and feel like I’ve stumbled upon something new.'”

2) Drake also confirmed that yes, Noah “40” Shebib is still his right hand. “If I want to make the album I want to make, I have to go find him. I have to go sit with him, and we have to really put in effort.”"

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3) Views From The 6 will be far more refined than last year's mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake implies. “By the standard I hold myself and 40 to, [If You're Reading This] is a bit broken. There’s corners cut, in the sense of fluidity and song transition, and just things that we spend weeks and months on that make our albums what they are.”

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Drake recently announced that he's "signed" to Boy Better Know. It's unclear what that exactly means and his label would not share any additional details at the time. Drake and the crew do share a long history, but this could mean an appearance by one or some of the BBK ranks on Views.

Drake would come by and just help, no strings. Future also came by to write. We all got new shit together that's gonna drop soon.

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SAFE, the latest shadowy artist making waves in Toronto, caught OVO's eye last year. Instagram posts with Drake and an OVO Sound Radio premiere both suggest that SAFE could be putting in work on Views right now.